Wee Walter...

I hope this guy has a PAYING job. The New Yorker might buy it.

Dear John and Jack, That's kind of the funny thing about it. It really has nothing much at all to do with church life at Christ the Word, but a good deal to do with popular Christian culture. And yes, Jack, I think the New Yorker might buy it. Ben introduced me to the comic book fiction genre, lending me Art Spiegelman's _Maus_ when he started attending CTW several years ago. Though he's a fine illustrator and painter, I think he ultimately aspires to comic book fiction. Some time I'll put up a photo of a portrait he did of my wonderful wife Cheryl. David

Is this your idea of humor? I was able to muster up an English accent and pronounce the cartoon, but to find this humorous --- no. My guess is the author didn't quite like the Disney Adaptation of Narnia. Hope he sticks to his day job.

Walter Hooper, executor of Lewis's estate, has met with great disapprobation from the late professor's fans for selling out his work. Here's my stab at the cartoon's point: Hooper has allowed Lewis's work to be portrayed about as faithfully as if a Cockney accent had been placed in the beloved author's mouth. I don't know if Hooper himself has a Cockney accent, but perhaps the cartoonist is also suggesting (per the last panel) that Wee Walter is an uneducated thug. Lewis, of course, did not despise all Cockneys (nor, I trust, does Mr. Byers). Witness King Frank and Queen Helen -- Narnia's first human monarchs -- a Cockney cabbie and housewife who exemplify the last becoming first and the lifing up of those who humble themselves.